Creston Jensen collection, 1921-1929

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Summary

Creators:
Jensen, Creston H., 1888-1931
Extent:
12 Linear Feet: 3 boxes, 1 flat box, 3 flat file drawers
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Creston H. Jensen Collection, (1978-2), Environmental Design Archives. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The Creston H. Jensen collection is organized by type of record, and arranged alphabetically within. The collection consists of project specifications and project drawings from the 1920s. Jensen's projects include residences, churches, commercial structures, and community buildings. The most well-documented projects of the Jensen collection include the Elks Club Gymnasium of Santa Cruz (1927), the Daly City Theater (1928), the Sacred Heart Church and Parish of Salinas and San Jose (1927), and Saint Joseph's Church in Mountain View (1928). The collection was donated in 1978.

Biographical / historical:

Creston H. Jensen 1888-1931

Creston H. Jensen was born in California in 1888. He was an alumnus of UC Berkeley, and earned his architectural certificate from the state of California in 1919. During the next twelve years, Jensen concentrated his architectural practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specialized in ecclesiastical work, and prepared many plans for the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco. The Archbishop adopted these plans for structures that were erected in Salinas, Alameda, Mountain View, and San Jose. In addition to his church designs, Jensen also worked on various community and commercial projects in Northern California. The most notable of these works include the Elks Club Gymnasium of Santa Cruz (1927), the Masonic Association's Corinthian Hall in South San Francisco (1927), and the Daly City Theater (1928). At the time of his death in 1931, Jensen's office was located at 605 Market Street.

Sources:

Obit., The Architect and Engineer. May, 1931. 96. Withey, Henry F., AIA, and Withey, Elsie Rathburn. "Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased)." Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Co. (1956) 325.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the Curator.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Creston H. Jensen Collection, (1978-2), Environmental Design Archives. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California.

Location of this collection:
230 Bauer Wurster Hall #1820
Berkeley, CA 94720-1820, US
Contact:
(510) 642-5124
designarchives@berkeley.edu
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